This money’s not going into the “Arrested Development” Bluth family’s banana stand.

The money raised by Penn Foundation’s annual Autumn Event goes to help pay for people who otherwise couldn’t pay for part or all of the services they receive from Penn Foundation, Jennifer King, director of advancement, said.

More than 10,000 people each year receive those services for mental health, substance use and development needs, according to Penn Foundation information.

This year’s Autumn Event, held Oct. 22 at Calvary Church in Hilltown, brought in about $107,000, putting it a little ahead of last year, King said.

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“Incredible community support made that happen,” King said.

Most of that money comes from sponsorships, not ticket sales, she said. Sponsorships vary from ones for relatively small amounts to large ones, she said.

“It all matters and I love to see that range of support,” King said. “I know it all comes from the heart.”

There are also a lot of volunteers who give up valuable time to help with the event, she said.

“They just do a great job. They make it look easy,” King said.

Penn Foundation’s community-based care programs started almost 60 years ago “well before many other communities had a facility like this,” Eva Pilgrim, of 6abc Action News and the evening’s emcee, said.

Keynote speaker Jeffrey Tambor, whose screen roles have included George Bluth Sr. in “Arrested Development” and Hank Kingsley in “The Larry Sanders Show,” started by telling the about 700 attendees that he had asked one of his children what to speak about.

“Tell them they need a superhero” and “tell them they can be their own superhero” was the response, he said.

“OK, good night, thank you very much. I mean, that sort of sums it up,” Tambor said, drawing one of several laughs during the night before launching into his presentation.

Showing slides of his family members, Tambor said he learns a lot from his children.

“They are in love with life,” Tambor said. “They don’t worship the status quo. They play with complete abandon and recklessness. They are not afraid to get their Legos, build it high, high, high, and then wreck it.”

Several other traits for the children, including being against the grain, wild, emotional, silly, impulsive and intuitive were also listed.

“In other words,” Tambor said, “they live life to the fullest.”

Many adults, however, have lost their purpose in life and settled for something else, he said.

“There’s something about that audacity that we have before we get scared,” Tambor said.

As a child, he was overweight and spoke with a lisp, Tambor said, but when he walked into a rehearsal at the theater next door to his home, he found both a career and an example for how to live.

“They would talk and they would rework it,” Tambor said, “and then they would do it again and it got better.”

Bringing Penn Foundation Director of Pastoral Services the Rev. Carl Yusavitz and Executive Director of Rehabilitation Services Donna Duffy-Bell up on stage, Tambor directed them in doing readings or singing Happy Birthday in ways that were over-acted, out of character or just done “badly.”

The exercise is similar to what he did to overcome his own fears, he said.

Using an example of a young person who wanted to start an acting career, Tambor also asked audience members what they would advise the person to do.

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be,” he said. “We have a destiny. The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves, or are listening to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, what the values are that they should be living for.”

Other advice included:

“This is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.”

“Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.”

“If everyone likes you, you are doing something wrong.”

“Be prepared to forgive and to be forgiven.”

“Don’t look for the lover. Be the lover.”

“Don’t be afraid to pass your parents on the freeway. It is what they raised you to do.”

Before taking a few questions, Tambor told the group, “Remember when your parents said calm down, calm down? Don’t. Never calm down. Celebrate. Because, remember — and your kids know this phrase more than you do, but,” — concluding with a signature line from “Arrested Development” — “there is always money in the banana stand.”

Questions included whether there will be an “Arrested Development” movie.

This year’s Adventures in Excellence honoree at the Autumn Event was Henry Rosenberger, owner of Tussock Sedge Farm in Blooming Glen and the president and founder of Rosenberger Cold Storage Warehouse & Transport, which he operated for 34 years before selling the company in 1996, according to biographical information provided by Penn Foundation.

Raymond Rosenberger, Henry Rosenberger’s father, was one of Penn Foundation’s founding board members, serving on the board from 1955 to 1980, according to information in Philip Ruth’s “A Model for the Country,” written in 2005 for Penn Foundation’s 50th anniversary year.

As a child, Henry Rosenberger said, he came to the initial Penn Foundation groundbreaking, not fully understanding what was being created but knowing that it was something new and exciting.

“My life has been enriched by many people who mentored me, many of you sitting right in this room, and many were pioneers of Penn Foundation and very good friends of my parents,” Rosenberger said. “I’m grateful for the community of persons who looked out for me. Often they told me what I was going to do next and I didn’t know myself.”

During his college years, Rosenberger said, he had what was first termed a nervous breakdown and later diagnosed as manic-depressive, but received help from Penn Foundation and has had no recurrence.

A silent auction was also held along with the Autumn Event.

“All of the proceeds from the silent auction go to Camp Courage,” said Sue McManus, who said she has volunteered with Autumn Event about seven years and who headed up the silent auction.

“Camp Courage is a special needs camp for children ages 7 through 12 with mental health or developmental disorders,” according to a brochure for the camp, which is held at Camp Men-O-Lan near Quakertown.

About $9,000 was raised by the auction bids, King said, although the total, with expected additional donations, was still being calculated.